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his officers Henry Laurens, William Moultrie, Virginia Gazette, 554, 2, 2. and Francis Marion. At Fort Prince George, Attakulla-kulla met the expedition, entreating delay for a conference. But on the seventh day of June, the army, which was formed of about thirteen hundred regulars, and as many more of the men of Carolina, pursued their march, followed by about seven hundred pack-horses, and more than four hundred cattle. A party of Chickasaws and Catawbas attended as allies. On the eighth, they marched through the dreaded defiles of War-Woman's Creek, Moultrie's Memoirs of the American Revolution, II. 223. by a rocky and very narrow path between the overhanging mountain of granite and a deep precipice which had the rushing rivulet at its base. Yet they came upon no trace of the enemy, till, on the next day, they saw by the way-side, crayoned in April vermilion on a blazed forest-tree, a war-party of Cherokee braves, with a white man as a captive. On the morning of the
July (search for this): chapter 18
amlets, fifteen in number, were pillaged, burned, and utterly destroyed. That year the Cherokees had opened new fields for maize, not in the vales only, but on the sides and summits of the hills, where the fugitives from the lower settlements were to make their bread. But all the plantations, teeming with chap. XVIII.} 1761. prodigious quantities of corn, were laid waste; and four thousand of the red people were driven to wander among the mountains. The English army, till its return in July to Fort Prince George, suffered from heat, thirst, watchings, and fatigue of all sorts; in bad weather they had no shelter but boughs and bowers; for twenty days they were on short allowance; their feet were torn by briers and mangled by the rocks; but they extended the English frontier seventy miles towards the west; and they compelled the Cherokees to covenant peace, at Charleston, with the royal governor and council. I am come to you, said Attakulla-kulla, as a messenger from the whole na
August 22nd, 1761 AD (search for this): chapter 18
late king's death. The Assembly held the new tenure of judicial power to be inconsistent with American liberty; the generous but dissolute Monckton, coming in glory from Quebec to enter on the government of New York, before seeking fresh dangers in the West Indies, censured it in the presence of the Council; Letter to the Lords of Trade, 7 April, 1762. even Colden advised against it. Golden to the Board of Trade, 25 Sept., 1761. As the parliament, argued Pratt, Pratt to Golden, 22 Aug., 1761. himself, after his selection for the vacant place on the bench, and when quite ready to use the power of a judge to promote the political interests of the crown, as the parliament at the Revolution thought it the necessary right of Englishmen to have the judges safe from being turned out by the crown, the people of New York claim the right of Englishmen in this respect; and he himself was treated chap. XVIII.} 1761. with such indignity for accepting the office on other terms, that it
December 11th, 1761 AD (search for this): chapter 18
by our Great Father above. We are of different color from the white people; but the same Great Spirit made all. As we live in one land, let us love one another as one people. And the Cherokees pledged anew to Carolina the friendship, which was to last as long as the light of morning should break above their villages, or the bright fountains gush from their hill-sides. Lieut. Gov, Bull to the Lords of Trade, 23 Sept., 1761. Terms of Peace for the Cherokees, in the Lords of Trade, of 11 Dec., 1761. Then they returned to dwell once more in their ancient homes. Around them nature, with the tranquillity of exhaustless power, renewed her beauty; the forests blossomed as before; the thickets were alive with melody; the rivers bounded exultingly in their course; the glades sparkled with the strawberry and the wild chap. XVIII.} 1761. flowers; but for the men of that region the inspiring confidence of independence in their mountain fastnesses was gone. They knew that they had come in
December 9th (search for this): chapter 18
he English officials of that day; and in November, about a month after Pitt's retirement, the Board of Trade reported to the king against the tenure of good behavior, as a pernicious proposition, subversive of all true policy, and tending to lessen the just dependence of the colonies upon the government of the mother country. Representation of the Lords of Trade to the king, 18 Nov., 1761. The representation found favor with George; and, as the first fruits of the new system, on the ninth of December the instruction went forth through Egremont to all colonial governors, to grant no judicial commissions but during pleasure. To make the, tenure of the judicial office the king's will was to make the bench of judges the instruments of the prerogative, and to subject the administration of justice throughout all America to the influence of an arbitrary and irresponsible power. The Assembly of New York rose up against the encroachment, deeming it a deliberate step towards despotic aut
December 9th, 1761 AD (search for this): chapter 18
ough a separate order having perpetual succession; for, on this point, the British ministry was disinclined to act, while the American people were alarmed at Episcopacy only from its connection with politics. New York was aroused to opposition, because, as the first fruits of the removal of Pitt from power, within six weeks of his resignation, Representation of the Board of Trade to the king, 11 November, 1761. the independency of the judiciary was struck at Egremont to Monckton, 9 December, 1761. throughout all America, making revolution inevitable. On the death of the chief justice of New York, his successor, one Pratt, a Boston lawyer, was appointed at the king's pleasure, and not during good behavior, as had been done before the late king's death. The Assembly held the new tenure of judicial power to be inconsistent with American liberty; the generous but dissolute Monckton, coming in glory from Quebec to enter on the government of New York, before seeking fresh dangers
April 7th, 1762 AD (search for this): chapter 18
New York, his successor, one Pratt, a Boston lawyer, was appointed at the king's pleasure, and not during good behavior, as had been done before the late king's death. The Assembly held the new tenure of judicial power to be inconsistent with American liberty; the generous but dissolute Monckton, coming in glory from Quebec to enter on the government of New York, before seeking fresh dangers in the West Indies, censured it in the presence of the Council; Letter to the Lords of Trade, 7 April, 1762. even Colden advised against it. Golden to the Board of Trade, 25 Sept., 1761. As the parliament, argued Pratt, Pratt to Golden, 22 Aug., 1761. himself, after his selection for the vacant place on the bench, and when quite ready to use the power of a judge to promote the political interests of the crown, as the parliament at the Revolution thought it the necessary right of Englishmen to have the judges safe from being turned out by the crown, the people of New York claim the right
1733 AD (search for this): chapter 18
y of obedience. Cost what it may, wrote Halifax, the Lord Lieutenant, from Ireland, my good royal master's authority shall never suffer in my hands; and the measures for reducing the colonies also to obedience were in like manner vigorously prosecuted. America knew that the Board of Trade had pro- chap. XVIII.} 1761. posed to annul colonial charters, to reduce all the colonies to royal governments, and to gain a revenue by lowering and collecting the duties prescribed by the Sugar Act of 1733. She knew, that, if the British legislature should tax her people, it would increase the fees and salaries of the crown officers in the plantations, and the pensions and sinecure places held by favorites in England. The legislature of Massachusetts still acknowledged that their own resolve could not alter an act of parliament, and that every proceeding of theirs which was in conflict with a British statute was for that reason void. And yet the justice of the restrictions on trade was denie
September 14th, 1769 AD (search for this): chapter 18
ent to punish infringements of the Acts of Trade in America without the intervention of a jury, had in distributing the proceeds of forfeitures, violated the very statutes which it was appointed to enforce. Otis endeavored to compel a restitution of the third of forfeitures, which by the revenue laws belonged to the king for the use of the province, but had been misappropriated for the benefit of officers and informers. Gov. Bernard to Lords of Trade, 6 August, 1761. Boston Gazette, 14 Sept., 1769. Bernard to Shelburne, 22 Dec., 1766. The injury done the province was admitted by the chief justice, who yet had no jurisdiction to redress it. The Court of Admiralty, in which the wrong originated, had always been deemed grievous, because unconstitutional; its authority seemed now established by judges devoted to the prerogative. Unable to arrest the progress of illiberal doctrines in the courts, the people of Boston, in May, 1761, with unbounded and very general enthusiasm, electe
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